Is Your Child Texting From Bed? Goodnight App Knows

The Goodnight app notifies parents when children are using smart devices when they should be asleep. Goodnight app developer Justin Esgar discusses with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Getty

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... worried parents lie to make sure that children are getting the best night sleep possible well there's an app for that ... then I'd Apple as the monitor when your children on their mobile devices when they shouldn't be it by sending e mails push notifications ... this great new parenting devices in the way to die the kids not ... to any of that answer on your passions is that my app developer just in the Stardust and ... thinks the much for being there with me tell us exactly how this works short so the ... actually just monitors activity on your child's ... device and I mean it's really what they're doing ... the actual motion in the device if they pick it up ... the Perry gets a personification saying think if only the telephone is in use ... and you need to do something about ... all kinds of happens to kids can be kept in no way that you know from reading in the sandpit down your found what I think just delete the app ... so we try to be smarter than the kiddos ... we actually installed the peace Corps or the wood is in the fall out of the lead from the phone ... the pair gets a notification saying cannot monitor ... right now ... the idea can go really it gets the more I get into the target multiple kiss ... it does so appear to have their goodbyes set up their entire children's lives ... and then they can install the Apple mobile ... devices and ... choose which child is nice given thing and it's also cross platform ... says the pair has an Android device in the child has an awful time work so and so how did this idea come about ... you have your kids if you're worried about ... so I see buying first child just for the beginning The Mun out the sex is not yet not ... quite yet ... but my sister has ... children of that age and he was a conversation that we my wife or my sister night ... and she was worried about ... her children using the phone and night ... now she's take away their phone and they would like sneak into her room and take a back thanks to this is just another all we do advise that you have teenagers to staying up for hours texting under the Caloundra and comforters so clearly in a lot that to happen but ... how what's the conversation you have with your team can clearly that can be too happy about that so ... how do you manage applications that they get so that's actually ... very intimate relationship between a parent a child I know to be the one to tell you how to parent your child ... as I'd ... mind going seventeen years old so ... you do you have been really feel a tiny relationship is with each other to have an open relationship or your child in grade abilities you if you don't your child's not really reacting well ... maybe to some other issues you might need to ... be looked at the nature of the opposite because of it is of course that this I called goodnight out that you can use it anytime of day Sure shimmy of radio ... the first version sent you could say that I'm something like four pm the light at nine am so it's not really all day week and one to keep at it like this the back time I just found that my kids are not quite there yet but when the ... lights and that they get it ...